I used to be a scrapbooker. Not a hardcore one. I’d buy dollar store items and cut & glue my stuff. It looked kind of nice, but would often fall apart. And it would take so long to get out all the supplies, not to mention getting the pictures printed and picked up. Eventually I fell behind, and once ... Read More »
Tag Archives: organizing
Library Book Tip
We’ve been using our public library for years, and we love the selection they have, and their printout they provide of all the books we have out. But recently, our older two have also started bringing home 3 books a week from their school library, and they tend to be smaller in size (paperback novels) with no printout. We end ... Read More »
A Month of Less: Organizing Paperwork
Am I the only one who struggles to deal with the important papers that seem to arrive daily? And now that our boys are at school, there are so many more! I’m always surprised at tax time that I’ve actually found most of our forms, though it takes a lot of searching. A lot of my papers get shoved behind ... Read More »
A Month of Less: The Tuppeware / Plastics Cupboard
My Tupperware cupboard has been exploding since the day after I cleaned it up in the summer. It was time. I did this one a few weeks ago, actually, because I wanted to see if I could keep it from falling into disarray in the next 7 days. Well, this time, it has made it for a full 3 weeks ... Read More »
A Month of Less: Kids’ Books
Sometimes it’s a little intimidating to face an entire room of kids’ things and organize/sort/throw out stuff. So I thought I’d just tackle one small area today – their little bookshelf. Since we had moved about 10 months ago, I had already gotten rid of so many books and toys, but we still had a lot. So ... Read More »
A Month of Less: The Coat Closet
Today’s challenge is the Coat Closet! Now, I’m hoping for your sake that yours is not in as bad shape as mine was – it was a little lot embarrassing. We had so many fabric & plastic bags stuffed in there that it was kind of a shove everything inside as far as possible and then quickly shut the door ... Read More »
A Month of Less: My Dresser
If you’re like me, your dresser and closet are always overflowing. No matter how much you can organize or separate or get rid of things, there’s always a mess. I’m not exactly sure why that happens. I decided to tackle my dresser today. I didn’t have time to do a big sort and organize, so I just went through and found ... Read More »
A Month of Less: Digital Photo Organizing
I have to admit that I’m not great about organizing and backing up my photos. They often sit on my computer in whatever place they get saved on, until I have hundreds of little files of pictures. So what I started doing about a year ago was to create 4 folders for each year. Jan-Mar., Apr-Jun, Jul-Sept., and Oct-Dec. This ... Read More »
A Month of Less: The Junk Drawer
Somehow, since we’ve moved into a kitchen with more cupboard space, I’ve gone from one “junk drawer” to one “main” one and two extras. Do I really need 3 drawers for random things? No. Now I just have to do something about it. Organize, and throw stuff out! Here’s our two main “junk” drawers. I went through, dumped them out. ... Read More »
A Month of Less: Email Simplifying
One thing that I find eats up a lot of my time is email. Whether it’s checking & responding to the important ones, or deleting/ignoring the spam/mailing lists. My inbox is so full that it gets overwhelming sometimes. Aside from my own Gmail account, I have a shared Hotmail account with my husband, as well as a work email account. ... Read More »